War or health? a reader
This comprehensive reader of 70 specially commissioned essays provides an unusually wide-ranging examination of the connection between warfare and human health and society. Contributors look at the changing character of wars and their effects on civilization, the medical and health aspects of differ...
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
University Press 2002
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a War or health? |b a reader |c editorial board, Ilkka Taipale ... [et al.] ; editorial assistant, Hanna Tapanainen ; preface by Kofi Annan |
| 260 | |a Dhaka, Bangladesh |c University Press |c 2002 | ||
| 300 | |a xix, 652 p. |b ill. |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a "In association with Physicians for Social Responsibility (Finland), Helsinki and IPPNW, Cambridge, Mass." | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | |a Historical view. Different arms systems. Conventional weapons -- Weapons of mass destruction -- New technology. Health and social effects of warfare. Demographic effects -- Effects on health care -- Vulnerable groups -- After the war. Social structures in connection with wars. War and environment. Prevention and management of wars. International regulatory activites -- Civilian efforts for peace -- Different non-governmental organizations. | ||
| 520 | |a This comprehensive reader of 70 specially commissioned essays provides an unusually wide-ranging examination of the connection between warfare and human health and society. Contributors look at the changing character of wars and their effects on civilization, the medical and health aspects of different types of weapons, the changing roles of health professionals in war. the arms trade, social tensions, the media, theories of violence, and war as a social institution. | ||
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| 650 | 2 | |a War | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Biological Warfare | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Chemical Warfare | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Human Rights | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Internationality | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Nuclear Warfare | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Persian Gulf Syndrome | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Social Responsibility | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Terrorism | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Vulnerable Populations | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Taipale, Ilkka | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Physicians for Social Responsibility (Finland) | |
| 710 | 2 | |a International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | |
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